Chicken In Lemon-ghee With Garlic And Cashews

Total Time: 1 hr 10 mins Preparation Time: 30 mins Cook Time: 40 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 4
• 6 chicken breasts or 6 chicken thighs, lightly poked all over with a knife
• 1 1/2 cups fresh lemon juice
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon finely ground cayenne pepper
• 2 teaspoons paprika
• 1 teaspoon coriander powder
• 1 teaspoon cumin powder
• 1 1/2 cups melted ghee or 1 1/2 cups butter
• 1 1/2 cups cashews (hand chopped)
• 1 1/2 cups garlic cloves, thinly sliced in round pieces
• 1 1/2 teaspoons ground cayenne pepper
• 1 pinch salt
• 1 pinch black pepper
• canola oil
• 3 tablespoons ghee or 3 tablespoons butter
• 2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice

Recipe

• 1 thoroughly mix all the marinade ingredients with the chicken in a large mixing bowl.
• 2 cover and set aside in the refrigerator for at least three hours.
• 3 preheat oven to 350º f garlic in a small baking tray, mix the garlic with salt, ground cayenne pepper and black pepper and approximately 1 teaspoon of canola oil.
• 4 place garlic tray in oven.
• 5 mix the garlic after 4 or 5 minutes and place back in oven for an additional 4 minutes.
• 6 since all ovens vary in temperature, keep checking through oven window to make sure the garlic isn’t burning.
• 7 cashews in a small baking tray, place cashews in a single pile.
• 8 place tray in oven.
• 9 mix the cashews after 4 or 5 minutes and place back in oven for an additional 4 or 5 minutes.
• 10 keep checking through the oven window to make sure the cashews aren’t burning.
• 11 mix the roasted garlic and cashews and set aside.
• 12 heat the 2 tablespoons ghee in a heavy, small pot.
• 13 add 2 tablespoons of fresh lemon juice and immediately reduce heat to low.
• 14 grill the marinated chicken.
• 15 once the chicken is cooked through, but while it is still on the grill, glaze both sides of the chicken with the ghee-lemon dressing.
• 16 serve the garlic-cashew mixture over freshly grilled marinated chicken breasts.